About me
I’m an enthusiastic programmer/hacker and philosophy student based in East Sussex, United Kingdom. I do programming work for a small company who provide services to the financial sector.
I mostly do Ruby on Rails although I also code in Scala, Python, Java and PHP. I’m pretty proficient in SQL and also use MongoDB. I’m experienced with XML, RDF and Semantic Web based technologies including RDFa, XSLT, GRDDL, microformats, SPARQL and so on.
I’m an administrator on Wikipedia (user page) and frequently blog on the topic. I also put my photos up on Wikimedia Commons.
I help organise BarCamp London and other community geek events in London.
In terms of social networking, I’m on Twitter, last.fm and GoodReads.
My code is up on Github and Bitbucket.
Below are some of my better ranty, shouty posts.
- Infographics are porn without the happy ending
- On e-mail and ‘visual cues’
- How not to use the word ‘cloud’
- TED is the new Harvard?
- When did the tech community become such a big conduit for bullshit?
Other ways into my blog:
- I post quite a lot of stuff about wikipedia, wikimedia and citizendium as I am or have been involved in all three. These posts are aggregated into Planet Wikimedia (English).
- Programming related posts all tend to be given the tag hackdiary.
- If you just want ranting and shouty stuff, the tag idiocy is the best way to find it.
- I also write about philosophy as various official-looking bits of paper allege that I know something about it: see the philosophy tag.
